Extreme Culinary Eating Tarantulas in Cambodia

Tarantula, the most feared poisoned spider by humans, has become one of Cambodia's favorite culinary delicacies. It is very easy for us to find food vendors serving a variety of tarantula dishes, from still living to being fried and being given a variety of flavors. An extreme culinary dining tarantula in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia is already very well known by foreign tourists. At first they also felt disgusted when enjoying this tarantula dish, but after trying several times for a long time it made addiction too.

It feels a bit like eating lobster or crab, the meat is crispy and some are chewy, especially in the stomach. When crushed by mouth, the texture is slightly spicy and sticky. Emm, so yummy, ueekss!

Not only enjoy eating a tarantula in a restaurant, tourists also often buy it as a snack or as an additional side dish at home. This tarantula's extreme culinary history actually originated from the poverty conditions of the Cambodian people since 1970 when the regime was in power at Polpot's Khamer Merah leadership.

With limited food resources blocked by the Khamer Merah group, forcing Cambodian people to survive by eating tarantula spiders that thrive in their environment.

It's easy to find the existence of this animal, like finding a horde of ants, they never hide behind holes, soil or rocks. But they often crawl on the walls of the Cambodian community.

Until finally the tarantula became one of the favorite foods of Cambodian people even though the Khamer Merah regime had long since ended. They usually make a tarantula dish with simple ingredients such as using caramel sugar, salt and garlic then frying until half cooked.

He said besides being delicious, the tarantula meat is also believed to be rich in nutrients. In every two standard size tarantulas we consume contain 1,038 kcal, sodium 175 grams, 3 grams protein and 110 grams of fat.

And not only in Phnom Penh City that sells this unique dish, in other parts of Cambodia namely Skuon, Kampong Cham, we also easily find roadside restaurants that serve extreme culinary dining for this tarantula. Dear, incidentane.com, are you interested in visiting it?